Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion
3:10 pm
Mr. Philip McAnenly:
With regard to the 30% overcrowding in the three Dublin maternity hospitals, the additional births that will take place in each of those hospitals on foot of the closure of Mount Carmel will have immediate implications in terms of cross-infection, higher rates of infection and simply even the dignity of patients - mothers and babies - in those areas that are already overcrowded. This will worsen a very difficult problem.
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